Religion & Belief
- Abuna Yemata Guh, the World's Most Inaccessible Church (Article)
- Babatunde and Yetunde: Yoruba Names That Mean an Ancestor Returned (Article)
- Bilal ibn Rabah: The Formerly Enslaved Ethiopian Who Became Islam's First Muezzin (Article)
- Bishop Ajayi Crowther Held Hostage on the Niger, 1867 (Article)
- David Oyedepo, Forbes's Pick for the World's Richest Pastor (Article)
- Emperor Fasiladas Expelled the Jesuits, and Historians Credit It With Keeping Ethiopia Free (Article)
- Engai: The Maasai Supreme God With Two Opposing Faces (Article)
- Fourah Bay College: The School That Made Freetown 'the Athens of West Africa' (Article)
- How Arabic Words for 'Unbeliever' and 'Slave' Became Racial Slurs (Article)
- Imhotep: The Ancient Egyptian Polymath Who Became a God (Article)
- Incwala: The Sacred Tree and the Bull That Renew Eswatini's Kingship (Article)
- King Ezana of Aksum's Conversion to Christianity, and How His Coins Prove It (Article)
- Medinet Habu: Ramses III's Fortified Temple on the Nile's West Bank (Article)
- Rastafari and Bob Marley's Spiritual Testimony (Article)
- Romanus Pontifex: The Papal Bull That Sanctioned Portugal's Slave Trade (Article)
- Sharo: The Fulani Rite Where Young Men Are Flogged Into Manhood (Article)
- The 'Curse of Ham': A Bible Story With No Mention of Race, Turned Into Slavery's Justification (Article)
- The 1930 Coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I (Article)
- The 42 Negative Confessions: How Ancient Egyptians Judged a Life Well Lived (Article)
- The Adam and Eve Mural of Abreha wa-Atsbeha, and What's Actually Known About Its Age (Article)
- The Balobedu Rain Queen: South Africa's Only Hereditary Female Monarchy (Article)
- The Baptist War: Jamaica's 1831 Christmas Rebellion (Article)
- The Dogon and Sirius B: A 'Lost Ancient Knowledge' Story That Later Fieldwork Couldn't Confirm (Article)
- The Emir Abdelkader Mosque: Constantine's Tribute to Algeria's Resistance Leader (Article)
- The Kasubi Tombs: Buganda's Royal Burial Site, Burned Twice and Rebuilt (Article)
- The Queen of Sheba, King Solomon, and the Ethiopian Legend of Menelik I (Article)
- The Three African Popes of Rome, and Why It's Been 1,500 Years Since the Last One (Article)
- Why Ethiopia Celebrates Christmas on January 7 (Article)
- Why Wodaabe Parents Traditionally Don't Speak Directly to Their Eldest Children (Article)
- Why Yoruba Communities Have the World's Highest Documented Twinning Rate (Article)